The treasure was found during the excavations of one of the military graves of the First World War.
“In the box there was a handwritten letter partially affected by moisture. Inside was a letter dedicated to a soldier, several German and East Prussian patriotic newspapers, there was also a set of banknotes and coins of 50 pfennig to 10 billion German marks from the era of Weimar Republic,” the press secretary of the company reported.
The bourgeois-democratic Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was established in Germany after the November Revolution of 1918. In the early period of its existence it experienced hyperinflation, when within four months the cost of a paper mark fell by 382,000 times.
The territory of former East Prussia, which today forms the Kaliningrad region, is the only place in Russia where fighting took place from 1914-1918. The region contains about one thousand World War I era military burials.
